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'''''Another Thin Man''''' is a 1939 American [[detective film]] directed by [[W. S. Van Dyke]], the third of six in the [[The Thin Man (film)|''Thin Man'']] series. It again stars [[William Powell]] and [[Myrna Loy]] as [[Nick and Nora Charles]] and is based on [[Dashiell Hammett]]'s [[The Continental Op|Continental Op]] story "The Farewell Murder".<ref>{{cite book |author=Library of Congress Copyright Office |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=41ljAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA269 |title=Catalog of Copyright Entries |year=1938 |page=269 |access-date=2012-07-30}}</ref> The Charles' son Nicky Jr. is introduced for the first time. The cast includes their terrier [[Skippy (dog)|Asta]], [[Virginia Grey]], [[Otto Kruger]], [[C. Aubrey Smith]], [[Ruth Hussey]], [[Nat Pendleton]], [[Patric Knowles]], [[Sheldon Leonard]], [[Tom Neal]], [[Phyllis Gordon]] and [[Marjorie Main]]. [[Shemp Howard]], later of [[The Three Stooges]],  appears in an uncredited role as Wacky.<ref>{{cite web|title=Another Thin Man|url=http://www.threestooges.net/filmography/episode/402|website=[[The Three Stooges]] Online Filmography|access-date=1 July 2017}}</ref><ref name=IMDB>{{cite web|title=Cast: Another Thin Man|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031047/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast|website=[[The Internet Movie Database]]|access-date=1 July 2017}}</ref>
'''''Another Thin Man''''' is a 1939 American [[detective film]] directed by [[W. S. Van Dyke]], the third of six in the [[The Thin Man (film)|''Thin Man'']] series. It again stars [[William Powell]] and [[Myrna Loy]] as [[Nick and Nora Charles]] and is based on [[Dashiell Hammett]]'s [[The Continental Op|Continental Op]] story "The Farewell Murder".<ref>{{cite book |author=Library of Congress Copyright Office |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=41ljAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA269 |title=Catalog of Copyright Entries |year=1938 |page=269 |access-date=2012-07-30}}</ref> The Charles' son Nicky Jr. is introduced for the first time. The cast includes their terrier [[Skippy (dog)|Asta]], [[Virginia Grey]], [[Otto Kruger]], [[C. Aubrey Smith]], [[Ruth Hussey]], [[Nat Pendleton]], [[Patric Knowles]], [[Sheldon Leonard]], [[Tom Neal]], [[Phyllis Gordon]] and [[Marjorie Main]]. [[Shemp Howard]], later of [[The Three Stooges]],  appears in an uncredited role as Wacky.<ref>{{cite web|title=Another Thin Man|url=https://www.threestooges.net/filmography/episode/402|website=[[The Three Stooges]] Online Filmography|access-date=1 July 2017}}</ref><ref name=IMDB>{{cite web|title=Cast: Another Thin Man|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031047/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast|website=[[The Internet Movie Database]]|access-date=1 July 2017}}</ref>


The film was unable to be called ''Return of the Thin Man'' because The Thin Man from the original film was "completely dead" according to newspapers in 1939.{{fact|date=March 2025}} It was followed by ''[[Shadow of the Thin Man]]'' (1941).
The film was unable to be called ''Return of the Thin Man'' because the actual "Thin Man" (often confused with the detective Nick Charles) was "completely dead", being in fact the victim from the first movie.<ref>{{cite web|title=Another Thin Man|url=https://www.derekwinnert.com/another-thin-man-1939-william-powell-myrna-loy-virginia-grey-otto-kruger-ruth-hussey-classic-movie-review-2264/|website=Derek Winnert|date=14 March 2015 |access-date=24 July 2025}}</ref> It was followed by ''[[Shadow of the Thin Man]]'' (1941).


==Plot==
==Plot==

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The film was unable to be called Return of the Thin Man because the actual "Thin Man" (often confused with the detective Nick Charles) was "completely dead", being in fact the victim from the first movie.[4] It was followed by Shadow of the Thin Man (1941).

Plot

Nick and Nora Charles are back in New York with Asta and their son Nicky Jr. They are invited by Colonel Burr MacFay to spend the weekend at his house on Long Island. MacFay, the former business partner of Nora's father and the administrator of her fortune, desperately wants Nick to put his well-known detective skills to work, as he has been receiving death threats from a shady character named Phil Church. When MacFay is killed, Church seems to be the obvious suspect, but Nick is skeptical, suspecting more than a simple murder. MacFay's housekeeper, his adopted daughter, and various hangers-on all may have had an interest in killing him.

Cast

Reception

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According to Frank S. Nugent, "this third of the trademarked Thin Men takes its murders as jauntily as ever, confirms our impression that matrimony need not be too serious a business, and provides as light an entertainment as any holiday-amusement seeker is likely to find".[8]

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Another Thin Man on the marquee of a Toronto cinema as a double feature with the Richard Arlen film Missing Daughters.

Another Thin Man is the third of six feature films based on the characters of Nick and Nora Charles:

Box office

Another Thin Man grossed a domestic and foreign total of $2,223,000: $1,523,000 from the U.S. and Canada and $700,000 elsewhere. It returned a profit of $394,000.[9]

References

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